I’m creating two new subdomains for a domain.com and I’m building up the VirtualHost configuration files for them.
After I’ve bringed the Virtualhosts online I’ve noticed that I forgot to Disable the Directory listing for that domains e.g. Directory Browsing was enabled for each of the two new subdomains I’ve created.
In order to deal with the situation all I had to do was change just one Apache directive in my Virtualhost configuration file :
Here is how my Virtualhost configuration conf file looked like before the change:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin admin@mydomain.com.com
ServerName subdomain.mydomain.com
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
DocumentRoot /home/mydomaincom/subdomain/
<Directory /home/mydomaincom/subdomain/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</Directory>
The configuration directive I had to change was Options Indexes , I had to substitute it with Options -Indexes
So eventually after the change my Virtualhost with disabled Directory listing for the Apache looked like:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin admin@mydomain.com.com
ServerName subdomain.mydomain.com
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
DocumentRoot /home/mydomaincom/subdomain/
<Directory /home/mydomaincom/subdomain/>
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</Directory>
I know this is pretty basic stuff but however I do tend to forgot how to disable the directory listing each and every time I decided to blog it here just to be easier for me to repeat the Directory Indexing prohibition for the future.
I’ll be glad if that’s helpful to somebody out there.
